Â His father was a millionaire mining engineer which afforded Hearst the chance to go to Harvard where he was expelled for giving his professors expensive chamberpots (early toilets) with their names imprinted on the inside.

For a while they would come back every year, bringing guests and servants with them, renting horses and a carriage from Edinburgh, hiring crofters 'wives to mop the stone floors and keep the fires alight and empty the chamberpots.